Jordan and Evermann. Fishes of North America. 1939 



of spinous dorsal, hearing small serrations on anterior and posterior edges 

 of basal half, bat without larger teeth or accessory spimiles. Area above 

 lateral plates thickly beset with minute prickles ; posterior part of abdom- 

 inal region and the area above anal fin similarly beset with prickles which 

 scarcely project beyond the small tubercles in which they occur. A few 

 larger postaxial prickles and a small number of white filaments scattered 

 along middle of sides. Filaments also at base of preopercular spine and 

 2 or 3 at tip of maxillary. Dorsal VIII, 14; anal 11; lateral line 35. 



A specimen, 151 mm. long, from Alhatrox* Station 3645, off Robbeii Island, 

 in 10 fathoms, is entirely similar to the one reported on by Gilbert. It 

 may he described as follows: Preorbital with 2 strong spinous projections, 

 which overlap the preinaxillary in closed mouth. Interorbital space deeply 

 channeled, the orbital rim raised posteriorly into a blunt spinous tubercle. 

 A small, spinous, occipital tubercle, behind which rises a high, sharp 

 nuchal ridge, which is highest posteriorly and has its upper edge finely 

 toothed. No cirri on top of head. Upper preopercular spine long, simple, 

 icaching beyond head to fourth or fifth plate of lateral line ; below it 3 

 short, strong spines, llie lowermost directed downward and forward; 

 outer surface of the upper spine with 3 or 4 low, finely serrated ridges, 

 its inner edge smooth, without accessory cusps or spinules; opercular 

 ridge high, serrate; two sharp spines OIL anterior angle of subopercle ; top 

 and sides of head rough, with minute spinous points; preopercle and 

 lower jaw w r ith numerous short filaments, a longer one on end of maxil- 

 lary. Body entirely covered with minute prickles, which invest also the 

 abdominal region; those above lateral line longest and most thickly placed; 

 lateral line with a series of plates similar to those in E. bisorij each sur- 

 mounted by a sharp spine; lateral line with 2 curves, approaching back 

 most nearly at end of spinous and at end of soft dorsal; many conspicuous 

 white filaments scattered over sides below lateral line. Dorsals entirely 

 separate, the free interspace as wide as pupil. Head 2f in length; depth 

 3f. Eye larger than interorbital width, 4| in head. D. VIII-14; A. 12 

 (11 iu previously noted specimen); P. 16; lateral line with 35 plates. 

 Dusky above, with faint, darker cross bars; light below; two black 

 blotches on cheek; some faint dusky V-shaped prolongations of the col- 

 oration of the back down toward base of anal fin; fins indistinctly cross- 

 banded; a dark area at base of pectoral, a narrow oblique dusky cross bar 

 011 base of caudal fin. (c/arts, key; gero, I bear.) 



Coitus claviger, CUVIER & VALENCIENNES, Hist. Nat. Poiss., iv, 195, 1829, Kamchatka 



(Coll. M. Collee) ; GUNTHER, Cat., n, 167. 



Coitus elegans, GRAY, in CUVIER & VALENCIENNES, Hist. Nat. Poiss., IV, 195, 1829 ; same type. * 

 Enophry* claviger, JORDAN & GILBERT, Synopsis, 711, 1883; GILBERT, Kept. U. S. Fish 



Comm. 1893 (1896), 426; JORDAN & GILBERT, Fishes Bering Sea, 1897. 



728. CERATOCOTTUS, Gill. 



Ceratocottus, GILL, Proc. Ac, Nat. Sci. Phila. 1859, 165 (diceraus). 



This genus is very close to Enoplirys, from which it differs in having the 

 long preopercular spine armed above with recurved hooks or antler-like 

 processes. Bering Sea. (nepas, horn ; Coitus.} 



